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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The Model Driven Generation (MDG) Technologies enable you to access and use resources pertaining to a specific technology in Enterprise Architect. You have various options for bringing MDG Technologies into use with Enterprise Architect:</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">Sparx Systems already provide some in the Enterprise Architect Install directory, such as </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="archimate.htm">Archimate</a></span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">,</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;"> <a href="bpel.htm">BPEL</a>, <a href="bpmn_1_4.htm">BPMN</a>, <a href="data_flow_diagrams.htm">Data Flow Diagrams</a>,</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="iconix_process.htm">ICONIX</a>,</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="mind_mapping.htm">Mind Mapping</a>, </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">and</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;"> <a href="spem.htm">SPEM</a>;</span><span class="f_Bulletlist1"> you can see which technologies are available using the </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="manage_mdg_technologies.htm">MDG Technologies</a> </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1">dialog; these are available across Enterprise Architect</span></li>
<li><a name="download"></a><span class="f_Bulletlist1">Sparx Systems provide other MDG Technologies for download from <a href="http://www.sparxsystems.com/resources/mdg_tech/" target="_blank" class="weblink">www.sparxsystems.com/resources/mdg_tech/</a>, which you can add to your Enterprise Architect Install directory; these are available across Enterprise Architect</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">You can <a href="access_remote_mdg_technologies.htm">access and activate</a> MDG Technologies remote from Enterprise Architect, in system folders or web sites; these are available across Enterprise Architect</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">Technology Developers can create new MDG Technologies and deploy them to the project team as appropriate; For more information see </span><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="introduction_2.htm">SDK for Enterprise Architect</a></span></li>
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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">You can also <a href="importmdgtechnologies.htm">import Technologies</a> into the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Resources</span><span class="f_BodyText"> window for the current model only; however, this method is no longer recommended.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Having made the MDG Technologies available to Enterprise Architect, you can <a href="manage_mdg_technologies.htm">manage</a> their availability to users and you can <a href="workingwithmdgtechnologies.htm">work</a> with them.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">You also have the facility to</span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span class="f_BodyText"><a href="manage_mdg_technologies.htm#UMLOut">turn off</a></span><span class="f_BodyText"> the Enterprise Architect basic UML and Extended toolbox pages and facilities, so that you can apply the Enterprise Architect facilities and features exclusively to one or more selected MDG Technologies.</span></p>




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